iOS 8 Lets You Scan Your Credit Card With its Camera
The latest version of Safari will let you scan a credit card with the device's camera instead of typing.
The latest version of Safari will let you scan a credit card with the device's camera instead of typing.
Mobile phone networks were able to work out where you were long before phones came with GPS. This video explains how.
Ben Redford sought suggestions to create a new artwork, drawing only what people told him to.
It's emerged that Britain has an ultra-secret spy base in the Middle East which taps undersea cables running through the region.
For hackers that undertake "cyberattacks which result in loss of life, serious illness or injury or serious damage to national security, or a significant risk thereof."
The space agency currently has an unsustainable strategy for landing human feet on the surface of the red planet.
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter sunshield undergoes thermal testing. The infrared image on the left shows the temperature of the surface; the red region is at a toasty 380° Celsius or 715° Fahrenheit. [ESA]
A rat's nest of cables at the back of a desk is truly the sign of the gadget-obsessed. But Intel plans to end all that, and soon: it wants your desk—hell, your entire digital life—to be completely wireless by 2016.
This (lightly edited) video shows what we might be in store for in the coming years: cars with no driver, no steering wheel and certainly no mercy.
Will your computer be able to run the new OS?
Google Glass is finding a place on the mean city streets, but it could also prove useful in the battlefield, too.
Developers are reporting that iOS 8 seems to display app icons on the lock screen when they'll work nearby—like when you're walking past Starbucks or sat in a train station. Apple didn't announce the feature Monday.
Google has released the source code for a new extension for Chrome, but this is no ordinary extension.
We're increasingly understanding how pain affects the brain—and this video explains what we know.
Here's a fun little Google Maps easter egg: ask for directions from Snowdon to the Brecon Beacons in Wales, and it'll estimate travel time by car, bus, foot, plane, bicycle, or... dragon!
Tranquility could soon arrive on your lap.
